A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.